Automobile-light.



W. ENSMINGER.

AUTOMOBILE LIGHT.

APPLICATION mm r58 5. ms.

Patented Sept. 19, M6.

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cred. lights of today, however, to provide @FFffiE.

UTOHOBILE-LIGHT Application filed February To all 'wficm .z'tmag/concern Be, it known that I, WILLIAM Essiimoun, a citizen oi theUnited States, ands resi-- dent of (.leves, in the county of HamiltoniiTKl- State of: Ohio, haveinvcnted certain new and useful Iniprovemcntsin AutomohilcL-ights of which the following isa. full, clear, and exactdescription, reference hung had to the accompanying drawings, formingpartof this specification.

ly invention relates to automobile lights :iniliiglit-s forliiiuircdpurposes, wherein the'lumps are capable of being tipped downwardly.

There have been. patented several devices for ,tipping the lights of anautomobile downwardly from a horizontal position for of avoiding theblinding of up preachingpersons, but these devices are expensive andcomplicated. In the high pow.- it is the general custom, a cover toshield at portionof the beam of light from a. headlight for; the abovepurpose, :ingi a requirement for theprovision of some such device is onthe statute'books of many public corpora- There are also certainexpensive dimmers applied to electric lights in such vehicles wherebythe bright light may be turned 05 and a dim light employed in or toavoid blinding passer-shy on the road.

The shisid device for lights is nota satisfactory method 05 hrilliancyof headlights in because it is -not capable of when operating on an openroad. The devices that have comet0 my attention for tipping downwardlythe vehicle lights'have een of complicated nature and impractical from acommercial point of view.

It is according my object to provide a simple an; inexpensive means forhinging the light supporting brackets and for moving the lampstogetherfrom a. proper dash control. f-

It is my objectto provide the fewest numoer of new parts necessary andto in no wise alter the outer appearance of the car to which my deviceis attached.

These objects I accomplish by that certain motor vehicles, beingrcrnoved construction and arrangement of parts to he hereinafter moreand claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l is a front sic vation of a. motor vehicle withmy new despecificaily pointed out Specification of Letters Patent.

*- vertical rod. 14.

providing against the" some form of The method shown of operating therod Patented Sept. 19, 191.6. Saris ITG. F8283.

attached. Fig. 2 is a. section taken n the ood of the vehicleshowing theparts in side elevation, Fig. 3 is as shown, o 01' the lamp bracket.This and ilash hood 7, ly the dash. These parts are il perspective viewof the preferred yecl for the light sup oiy mounted-on the frame ofplate 3 or any. members .The vehicle are mounted not to be of anyparticular type as I design to employ my invention with any standardmethod of mounting the usual. lump brackets, and my invention isvehicles ha ving. the above deSCIjilJcd- "1 I provide 'outt hinge in theshank .8 of the lamp bracket,- saidi hing con prising applicable to allI lamps supported as bosses 9 and ;i0"'on the.upper and lower; portionsof the shank, a pivot pin 1-1 and.

shoulders 125,12. I-cut insert therein a. T 13, sa d T carrying aPirated to the rod lst-isorod li which is connected by c turn buckle 16with a rod 17.

that passes through the This turn huclrle allows theftaki'ng up of anyin the line from the vertical rod to the dash and also shows the easymoving out of the way of the rods wh en repairing parts of the engine.In such case the buckle is disconnected and the outer rod 15 drawn outthrough the radiator.

dash the cur.

the cross rod 4 i he passage of the rod 15 through the radiator isaccomplished by mczins of a bushing 18 that is set into the radiatorfront, the rod ii-self passing beneath the water radiator'aud betweenthe tubes thereof (not shown). A-hushing 19 is set into the dash for therod 17, and this red is operated by a; lever 20 which works'over a.segment rack 21 with spring dog 92;

7 is jiict the only method 'whichl iesign to employ, but is only showuasa simple device to accomplish the desired purpose. It will be noted thatthe number of parts, exclusive of the operating lever, is very few andthat passage of the brilliancy,

Mp1eover,

thre [fhgthe rays from a great advantage in the device could be set upby any mechanic without any difiiculty.

The butt-hinge is so arranged that it will be closed when the lamps arein a position to throw a horizontal ray when the rod 17 is pushedforwardly from the drivers seat, the vertical rod 14 will be tipped in alike direction and the lamps will be moved toa position to throw the rayof light downwardly and toward the "ground so that it will not shine inthe eyes of a passer-by. The light will then be directed to a spotcloseto the car, which is desirable in passing other vehicles orpedestrians or driving in city trafiic, and it is not diminished inthereby depriving the driver-of proper vision the road near his car. thedipping of the light and the reflector to the from the car is of turningcorners, as the read at the curve is brilliantly illuminated am; as thecar turns, the light is projected around-the curve, thus obviating thenecessity of any device such as has been proposed whereby the lamps arerevolved on a verticalpivot as the car turns the corner.

It is the usual custom to mount the license tag on the cross rod 4between the lamp brackets and this tag will ordinarily congrbund a short"distance 'ceal all of the exposed parts of my device,

as the tag will be high enough to conceal the vertical rod from view.The fact that the hinge is a butt-hinge removes any difficulty inreturning the lamps to their origioflight, and

nal position after operation thereof, as the operator merely pullsupwardly tne operating lever until the lamps are stopped in movement bythe closing of the hinge.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

- 1'. In a device of the character described, a pair of lamp bracketshaving shanks an forks, lamps on the forks, hinges set into the shanksso that the upper portion thereof I will bend forward from the vertical,across bar extending across between the forks and connected to a tine ofeach of said forks, a reciprocating bar for operating the device, saidbar havingoperative connection to the said cross bar, and adapted toswing the bar forward, and cause, a tippin g 'of the forks, lamps andbar-as a -unit.

2. In a device of the character described, a pair of lamp bracketshaving shanks and forks, lamps on the forks, hinges set into the shanksso that the upper portion thereof will bend forward from the vertical, across bar extending across between the forks and connected to a tine ofeach of Said forks, a reciprocating bar for operating the device, saidbar having operative connection to the said cross bar, and adapted toswing the bar forward, and cause a tipping of the forks, lamp and bar asa unit, said hinges in the shanks being butt hin'gesand adapted whenclosed to hold-,the shanks in vertical alinement;

WILLIAM ENSMINGER.

